I have to say, watching David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross really brings back the memories when it comes to all the sales jobs I’ve held in the past. There’s a sense of desperation and unworthiness that reverberates throughout every scene; a bleak window into a dark and self-perpetuating present.
If I was just viewing the work [...]

When you pick up for favourite publication, be it in print or online form, usually there are articles you read and articles you ignore. Usually, writers want to come up with a “hook” that gets you right away and makes you continue to read. A lot of time and energy can go into longer magazine [...]

It’s strange how you can be teetering on the edge, full of anxiety and finding it difficult to get by, and then suddenly a deep calm comes over everything.
Certainly, being distanced emotionally from trauma or sources of stress helps mitigate the situation. There is also the matter of asking hard questions and getting the type of [...]

Out there, they’re counting down to the end of winter. That mentality doesn’t suit the bill–running away from an event; It’s much more preferable to look towards something.
And it looks like there will be plenty of things coming to look forward to.

Days like this are perhaps what will become really telling. Everyone has them–you feel lifeless, unmotivated and tired. And that’s before you’ve actually done any real work. Usually most people develop a way to cope or deal with their negative feelings and just coast through the tasks at hand.
It’s a really cold, cruel world out [...]

I ask whether he feels any sense of guilt for having beaten Vicky and his other wives. “If you had a girl and she was beautiful and other people were trying to invite her out and seduce her, wouldn’t you get angry?” he says.
“That’s the thing. I saw these obvious jerks and schmucks coming [...]

I went to see an old friend’s band—all the members were highly technically trained, and it showed in their song set. Yet the performance was devoid of emotion, and failed to connect with the crowd. If people want to hear spot-on covers of classic hits, they can always turn on the radio. And now they’re complaining about being [...]

You ever head into the weekend/holiday, and have some event/trip planned, and everyone is telling you to enjoy yourself? And you’ve sort of built up that activity, your expectations hinge on everything turning out really well? Then when you’re in that moment, doing whatever, your sense of enjoyment just evaporates?
Sometimes, that sense of self-consciousness is hard to shake. Most [...]

The sad thing about life is that once it’s over, it really is over. You can’t even go back ten seconds to get another attempt at whatever you were doing. And what will you be left with at the various points where one phase shifts into something completely different?
There are places and times when people insist [...]